Royall Tyler (academic)


Royall Tyler is a scholar, writer, and translator of Japanese literature. Major works include English translations of The Tale of the Heike which won the 2012 Lois Roth Award, and The Tale of Genji '' which received the Japan-US Friendship Commission Translation Prize in 2001.

Career

Tyler completed his B.A. in Far Eastern Languages at Harvard University in 1957. He then obtained a master's degree in Japanese history and PhD in Japanese literature at Columbia University, where he was supervised by Donald Keene. After teaching at Ohio State, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University Oslo became head of the Japan Centre in the faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. With his wife, Susan Tyler, he retired in 2000 to rural New South Wales. Between 1993 and 2023 the couple bred alpacas on their property near the town of Braidwood.

Honors

Selected works and translations

Japanese Tales, Pantheon, 1987French Folktales, Pantheon, 1989Japanese Nô Dramas, Penguin, 1990The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity, Columbia University Press, 1992The Tale of Genji, Viking, 2001 and Penguin, 2002 Mistress Oriku: Stories from a Tokyo Teahouse by Kawaguchi Matsutarô, Tuttle, 2007The Glass Slipper and Other Stories by Yasuoka Shôtarô, Dalkey Archive Press, 2008The Ise Stories: Ise monogatari, University of Hawai'i Press, 2010 Flowers of Grass by Fukunaga Takehiko, Dalkey Archive Press, 2012The Tale of the Heike, Penguin, 2012A Great Valley Under the Stars, Isobar Press, 2014The Castelvecchio Family, by William R. Tyler, 2014From the Bamboo-View Pavilion: Takemuki-ga-ki, Blue-Tongue Books, 2016A Reading of The Tale of Genji, Blue-Tongue Books, 2016Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams: Twenty Plays from the Noh Tradition, Columbia University Press, 2024The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan, Columbia University Press, 2024A Shattered Realm: Wars and Lives in Fourteenth-Century Japan, Kindle Direct Publishing, 2024